The Jackal Guardian's Ascent

Chapter 3

A/N: Alright dudes, we're officially at the start of the Skypiea Arc, and what better way to start it than to give you all the official info for our boi Anu? Here we go.

Name: Nefertari Anu

Age: 23

Height: 6'5"

Devil Fruit: Human Human Fruit, Mythical Model: Anubis

Appearance: Brown eyes (may have initially been another color, but they're brown now.), shoulder length black hair, tanned skin (same tan as pre-time skip Robin)

And that concludes our info intro. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

"Sky Island?" everyone except for Anu asked Robin.

"What's that?" Chopper asked.

"Is this island floating?" Luffy asked.

"From my understanding, yes and no." Anu answered.

"Is that where the ship and the skeletons fell from?" Usopp wondered aloud.

"I don't see any islands up there." Zoro remarked.

"Actually, it's not just the island that's floating in the sky but the sea as well." Robin answered everyone.

"THE SEA?!" Nami asked.

"Now I'm even more confused." Sanji remarked about the situation.

"WHOOOAAA!!" Chopper, Usopp, and Luffy all exclaimed with excitement about the new adventure.

"THE SEA FLOATS IN THE SKY AND THERE'S AN ISLAND ON IT?! LET'S GO!!" Luffy ordered the crew in his excitement.

"C'MON GUYS! RAISE THE PROW!!" Usopp ordered. "RAISE THE PROW!!"

"Umpf." Luffy mumbled through the hands that Robin had created to muffle him.

"Captain, we can't raise the prow." Sanji informed his captain, that was now on the deck trying to remove the hands.

"Actually, I've never seen this sky island." Robin informed the crew. "I don't know very much about it."

"But that's impossible!" Nami remarked. "How can an island or an ocean, for that matter, float in the air? The log pose must be broken."

"No, navigator." Robin told her. "It's not the log pose. What we have to figure out now is how we get up to the sky."

"Random question." Anu said as he poked his head out from the lounge of the ship. "We wouldn't happen to have a map on board, would we?"

"I'm afraid not." Nami answered. "Why do you ask?"

"I think I might know about an island in the area your log pose is pointing." Anu replied. "It's just a guess if I don't have a map."

"What island do you think it is?" Robin asked. "I'm somewhat familiar with some areas of the Grand Line, but not exactly this part in particular."

"I have a hunch." Anu replied. "But, if I remember some of the maps back home correctly, our log pose might be pointing to an area near an island known as Jaya."

"Jaya?" Nami and Robin asked.

"Correct." Anu answered. "I want to say I remember an old tale based around that area that's always interested me."

"Hey, what are those idiots doing?" Zoro asked as he thumbed over at Usopp and Luffy hopping around the shipwreck that had just fallen from the sky.

"Looks like they're searching for something." Chopper replied.